NYC Vaccine List

Link: https://www.nycvaccinelist.com

A volunteer-led project to find available vaccine appointments in NYC, updated every minute. Leading development on the website (api/frontend) part of the project.

Problem

Finding an vaccine appointment means navigating 10s of differently designed sites. We can simplify the interface to 1 page.

Features

Grouped events by state

Technical learnings

Integrating Tailwind CSS outside of a formal build system
Making use of detail / summary HTML elements
Accessibility beyond aria tags
- Color contrast
- Warning people when they're about to leave the site
- translation / localizing dates, numbers, etc, avoiding the double text render problem
- Using Preact x Next.js
Using Pipedream to quickly spin up discord bots/twitter pipelines
Using Datadog Synthetics as a slot availability checking system

Organizational

Scaling data augmentation with volunteers
Replicating entity resolution / data updating a central location for other geographies
- Currently using Observable Notebooks x Google Sheets as an interim canonical ID generator

Inventory tracking for products meeting price/availability (e.g. Camelcamelcamel, Rogue Stock Bot)
Similar apps in other locales
- Texas: https://twitter.com/ccgirl/status/1347648220072189952?s=20